Current and former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are angered by a recent decision by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to upend an advisory committee that makes vaccine recommendations.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the numbers of measles cases in the country on Friday. Here's what they say and what it means for public health in the U.S.
The U.S. agency has not released information on what global programs were cut this week. NPR spoke to current employees who provided exclusive details.
Potential cuts to HIV work at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have local and national experts worried that recent progress in cutting HIV rates will come to a halt.
Five high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving. The departures were announced Tuesday at a meeting of agency senior leaders. This means close to a third of the agency's top management is leaving or left recently.
The nation's top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work. Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices last month.
Public health employees and contractors who lost their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Friday to put a face on the mass terminations and demand that state officials speak up for them with the Trump administration.
In recent days, more than a thousand employees at the Atlanta-based CDC and more at other agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services have been let go.
Nearly 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump administration's move to get rid of all probationary employees. That's roughly one-tenth of the agency's workforce. The agency's leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning.
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff held a virtual press conference with Georgia public health experts to express the importance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following President Trump's executive order directing agencies to remove their websites and data with the CDC.
If the downward trend holds, this year is expected to be the first since 2020 to see overdose deaths fall below the 100,000 mark. However, Black and Native American communities remain vulnerable.
